“Rohit Sharma time is over …”- Ricky Ponting

Former Australian cricket Ricky Ponting spoke of Rohit Sharma’s retirement talks ahead of ICC 2025 Champions Trophy. He said that in the way the Indian batter plays, he should have kept the goal of playing at the ICC 2027 World Cup.

India captain Rohit Sharma has been under the scanner in recent months and there were many calls related to his retirement. This is due to the fact that the batter struggled to go with the bat but with thSo he responded to all critics, it was something to appreciate his fans.

Rohit Sharma mentions that he will not retire

In front of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, there were many reports that said that Rohit Sharma would retire after the tournament. However, the Captain of India put all the talks after taking the team to win the tournament, after having won all the games.

Rohit Sharma mentioned during the press conference that he will not retire and play until he likes. The Captain of India led the front in the final of the CPI 2025 champions trophy, as he played a magical entry of 76 runs against New Zealand to bring his team home.

When you start reaching this point of your career, everyone is waiting for you to withdraw –

As he went to Rohit’s retirement talks, Ricky Ponting said that with the way the Captain of India played in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 final, he closed all conversations. While talking to ICC about the same, he said:

“When you start reaching this point of your career, everyone hopes to withdraw. And I don’t know why, when you can still play as well as you played (in the final), I think I just tried to put these questions in bed once and for all and say,” No, I’m still playing well enough.

“I love playing on this team. I love to run this team.” And I think the fact that he told me that, for me, it means that he must have this goal in mind of playing next (50) World Cup (2027). “”

When you see him play as if playing in the champion trophy final, you would not say that his time is over: Ricky Ponint on Rohit Sharma

Ricky Ponting further pointed out that after losing the CPI 2023 World Cup final, Rohit had to think about having some more cracks. He concluded by saying that with the way Rohit Sharma played, it does not seem that his time is over. Added:

“ I think probably the fact that they lost the last and he was the captain, this could be what is played on the back of his mind. You just have to call more when trying to win the T20 World Cup, the Champions Trophy and the Hate Cup. I mean that when you see him play as if he had played in the final of the Trophy of Champions, you would not say that his time is still. ”

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